Chattanooga
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The verdict
“Chattanooga” is uncommon German (frequency #87,548 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,548
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Tennessee
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chattanooga |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chattanooga” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chattanooga is uncommon German at frequency #87,548 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Tennessee".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chattanooga in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Chattanooga, spelled C-H-A-T-T-A-N-O-O-G-A.
Definition
- 1Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Tennessee
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Chattanooga”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-A-T-T-A-N-O-O-G-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.